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Art provides outlet for grief
Published: 2013.05.22 | By Christopher Clair | 10:47 AM
Published: 2013.05.22
By Christopher Clair
10:47 AM
A celebratory moment—the bestowment of the 2013 Yale Drama Series Award—is one that grew out of painful loss and honest conversation between a University of Iowa professor and a student (now alumna) of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Story
 

Artist illness prompts cancellation of Hughes workshop, performance

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2013.03.29 | By Christopher Clair | 08:50 AM
holly hughes with toy ducks

UI Theatre is sorry to announce that the Holly Hughes Gay Marriage Performance Workshop (April 2-5) and the Holly Hughes performance (April 6) have been cancelled due to the artist’s illness. UI Theatre plans to reschedule the workshop and performance during the 2013-2014 season. Story

Bang, Sikelianos to read April 4

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2013.03.29 | By Christopher Clair | 08:00 AM

Mary Jo Bang, former visiting faculty at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Eleni Sikelianos will read at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City as part of the Mission Creek Festival. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Three dance students present thesis works April 4-6

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2013.03.29 | By Christopher Clair | 08:00 AM
lifescapes poster detail

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present Lifescapes, a production featuring the thesis works of three graduate students, at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6, in Space Place Theatre of North Hall. The event combines new works by Joseph Cox, Jennifer Harge, and Michael Medcalf. Story

Roxane Gay, John D'Agata kick off Mission Creek literary events April 2

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2013.03.28 | By Christopher Clair | 04:58 PM

Fiction writer/essayist Roxane Gay and University of Iowa professor of English John D’Agata will read from their work at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City as part of the Mission Creek Festival. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Hancher invites families to experience the journey of 'Kindur'

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2013.03.28 | By Erin Donohue | 09:45 AM
three figures on a stage

The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present "Kindur: The Adventurous Life of Icelandic Sheep" by Compagnia TPO on Tuesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. Compagnia TPO is a company on the frontier of interactive performances. Story

UI Press publishes McNally's 'Vivid and Continuous'

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2013.03.27 | By Christopher Clair | 10:00 AM

"Vivid and Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction" by John McNally is now available from the University of Iowa Press. Story

Pollack, Percy to read April 3

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2013.03.27 | By Christopher Clair | 09:43 AM

Eileen Pollack and Jen Percy will read from their work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City as part of the Mission Creek Festival. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website. Story

Tim Quirk from Google Play to lecture on UI campus

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2013.03.25 | By University Communication and Marketing | 11:51 AM

The University of Iowa and Mission Creek Festival will host a lecture by Tim Quirk from Google Play at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 1 in the second floor Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol. The lecture, titled "The Quiet Revolution: From the Walkman to the iPod, How Portability and Infinite Storage Have Changed the Way We Listen, and What We Listen To," is free and open to the public. Story

UI Press honors short fiction authors

The Gazette: UI Press honors short fiction authors
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2013.03.24
The Kuhl house, home to the University of Iowa Press, photographed on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, is located on 119 W Park Rd. in Iowa City and is the oldest domestic house in Iowa City, the original first floor was built in the 1840's.

Tessa Mellas and Kate Milliken received the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Awards from the University of Iowa Press, located in the historic Kuhl house. Story from: The Gazette

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Marina Warner receives Truman Capote Award

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2013.03.25 | By Christopher Clair | 10:32 AM
marina warner portrait

"Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights," written by Marina Warner, professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, is the winner of the 2013 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The award is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Story

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